Gardening in Prince Edward County, Ontario, Canada
Has anyone read West with Giraffes? I’m just a few dozen pages in but I’m already loving this 2021 Lynda Rutledge novel, even if the font in this edition seems extremely small to my aged eyes. It’s the tale of how two giraffes survive a hurricane while en route to New York City in 1938, […]
Spring finally, officially at least, arrives on Friday. Snow has mostly melted away here, although there’s more in the forecast in the coming days and our last frost date is still nearly two months away. But we have snowdrops aplenty and, thanks to a few branches cut from a very large ‘Ottawa Early’ Forsythia and […]
It was all about our local coyote pack in 2025, not a single deer or rabbit lingered long enough within range of the compost pile cam to trigger the shutter. Instead, the luxuriously pelted wild dogs ventured forth regularly and fearlessly, at all hours of the night and day, helping themselves, it seems, to veggies […]
As the sun rose yesterday it was cold, 21 degrees below zero, but the air was still for the first time in many days. The powdery snow that had fallen all day Thursday lay softly over the ground, and it was easy to imagine myself standing on a movie set somewhere much further south. The […]
